ONE of the country's biggest internet providers will today go to court to try to have the injunction protecting the identity of James Bulger's killers altered.

ONE of the country's biggest internet providers will today go to court to try to have the injunction protecting the identity of James Bulger's killers altered.

Demon Internet Ltd wants a ruling made which would protect it if any information breaching the strict ban is published on its pages without its knowledge.

The move at the High Court in London follows fears that up-to-date pictures of either Robert Thompson or Jon Venables could be posted on the internet by protesters opposed to the pair's imminent release.

Lawyers for the company will today ask Dame Elizabeth Butler-Sloss to change the wording of the injunction to distance them from any possible future prosecution.

She implemented an order which provided both boys with new identities and banned the publication of any details which could lead to those details becoming public.

But the ban only applies to England and Wales and there are real concerns that it could soon be broken via the internet.

Last night, a source told the Daily Post: "The internet service provider Demon is applying to have the injunction changed so that they would not be liable for publication of anything which breached the order."

Thompson and Venables were both 10 when they abducted the toddler from a north Merseyside shopping centre and murdered him in February 1993.

They were convicted of killing him and detained at Her Majesty's Pleasure with a recommendation they serve at least eight years detention. They will soon be released on licence.

But this has infuriated many people who claim neither boy has served long enough for their crime.

In March of this year, Demon agreed an out-of-court settlement with a London-based lecturer, Dr Laurence Godfrey, who claimed a defamatory statement about him had been published on a site carried by the company.